A garment for real time detection of body deformation during an image scan includes a front portion, made of a compression material and having a plurality of fiber Bragg gratings (FBGs). The garment includes a plurality of light emitters, each light emitter configured to pulse light waves through a corresponding FBGs and a plurality of light sensors, each light sensor attached to a corresponding FBG and configured to receive pulsed light waves. A processor obtains data through a data acquisition module configured to receive from the light sensors peak wavelengths reflected by the FBG Based on the effective shifts of the Bragg wavelengths of the FBGs aligned along the cartesian coordinate system, the processor may correct acquired image data or re-direct an external beam treatment to compensate for body deformation during an image scan.

A garment for real time detection of body deformation during an image scan includes a front portion, made of a compression material and having a plurality of fiber Bragg gratings (FBGs). The garment includes a plurality of light emitters, each light emitter configured to pulse light waves through a corresponding FBGs and a plurality of light sensors, each light sensor attached to a corresponding FBG and configured to receive pulsed light waves. A processor obtains data through a data acquisition module configured to receive from the light sensors peak wavelengths reflected by the FBG Based on the effective shifts of the Bragg wavelengths of the FBGs aligned along the cartesian coordinate system, the processor may correct acquired image data or re-direct an external beam treatment to compensate for body deformation during an image scan.

A shuffle assembly for a computing device comprises at least one chassis waveguide shuffle block having a plurality of chassis inputs and a plurality of chassis outputs, and having a plurality of optical waveguides formed therein connecting the chassis inputs to the chassis outputs in a desired chassis shuffle arrangement. The shuffle assembly may further comprise at least one line card waveguide shuffle block having a plurality of line card inputs, at least one of the plurality of line card inputs, a plurality of line card outputs, and a plurality of waveguides formed therein connecting the plurality of line card inputs to the plurality of line card outputs in a line card shuffle arrangement. At least one optical ribbon cable may couple the at least one chassis waveguide shuffle block to the at least one waveguide shuffle block.

One illustrative device disclosed herein includes a layer of semiconductor material and a first Bragg reflector structure positioned in the layer of semiconductor material, wherein the first Bragg reflector structure comprises a plurality of dielectric elements and a first internal area defined by an innermost of the first plurality of dielectric elements. In this example, the device also includes an optical component positioned above the layer of semiconductor material, wherein at least a portion of the optical component is positioned within a vertical projection of the first internal area.

An optical module includes a wiring board having a first electrode, an optical waveguide provided on the wiring board, an optical element having a second electrode and provided on the optical waveguide, a conductive bonding material bonding the first and second electrodes, and a fixing member that fixes the optical element to the optical waveguide. The optical waveguide includes a core layer, a first cladding layer provided on a first side of the core layer, a second cladding layer provided on a second side of the core layer opposite to the first side, and an optical path conversion mirror provided on the core layer or the second cladding layer. The optical element is optically coupled to one end of the core layer via the optical path conversion mirror, and a softening point of the fixing member is higher than a melting point of the conductive bonding material.

The present disclosure relates to a fiber management device or system for facilitating routing and storing optical fibers. The fiber management device includes a flexible, film-like substrate that has optical fiber management, storing functionality, and splicing functionality all on one film-like substrate. The flexible, film-like substrate can provide a routing path for routing optical fibers onto a flexible planar substrate that can be temporarily supported by, mounted on or attached to the flexible planar substrate. The flexible, film-like substrate can accommodate fibers that are in a multi-fiber (e.g., ribbon) configuration or a single fiber configuration.

An optical waveguide member connector kit includes an optical waveguide member including an optical waveguide and a connector having an accommodation space that is capable of accommodating the optical waveguide member. When the optical waveguide member is accommodated in the accommodation space, the connector has an opening portion reaching the optical waveguide member from the outside of the connector and when the optical waveguide member is accommodated in the accommodation space, at least one of the optical waveguide member and the connector includes a groove communicating with the opening portion facing at least the other side of the optical waveguide member and the connector.

A lighting system may include one or more light sources and one or more light guides. A lighting system may be integrated into a window, a skylight, an exterior light such as a headlight, a tail light, or a high center-mounted stop light, or other exterior or interior portions of a system such as a vehicle. The light guide may be embedded in an adhesive layer in a vehicle structure. The light guide may be index-matched to the adhesive layer so that unilluminated portions of the light guide are indistinguishable from the vehicle structure. The light guide may be formed from optical fibers. The optical fibers may include a light-scattering optical fiber that scatters light out of the vehicle structure. The light-scattering optical fiber may be fused to a non-scattering optical fiber that guides light from a light source to the light-scattering optical fiber.

The present disclosure provides an optical fiber circuit board and a manufacturing method thereof, a multilayer optical fiber circuit board, an optical transmission device, a photo-electric hybrid circuit board, and a signal transmission device. The optical fiber circuit board includes at least two substrates stacked and spaced apart, at least one optical fiber assembly and a bonding layer. Each of the at least one optical fiber assembly is disposed between each adjacent two of the at least two substrates. Each of the at least one optical fiber assembly includes at least one optical fiber. The bonding layer is filled in a remaining space between adjacent two of the at least two substrates apart from a corresponding optical fiber assembly of the at least one optical fiber assembly to fix each of the at least one optical fiber relative to the adjacent two substrates.

Embodiments of the invention are directed a waveguide having a first waveguide segment that includes a set of first waveguide segment confinement parameters; a second waveguide segment having routing bends and a set of second waveguide segment confinement parameters; and a third waveguide segment having a set of third waveguide segment confinement parameters. The waveguide is configured to guide optical data according to an asymmetric optical-loss performance curve that is a plot of the sets of first, second, and third waveguide segment confinement parameters on a first axis; and a level of optical-loss performance that results from the sets of first, second, and third waveguide segment confinement parameters on a second axis. The sets of first, second, and third waveguide segment confinement parameters are configured to, collectively, maximize a predetermined worst-case optical-loss performance level of the asymmetric optical-loss performance curve within a range of waveguide fabrication tolerances.